A Booklet from the April 1985 issue of Animage
Letters from USA and Canada from Fans
You will notice the images that open and close this are by Toren Smith of Studio Proteus fame around a year before all that began.
Here is the entire piece from Animage for December 1984
The main focus is on
Hideaki Anno
Ichirō Itano
Hiroyuki Kitakubo
Masahito Yamashita
Yuji Moriyama
With the last page being Mamoru Oshii talking about the group of animators.
The scanning of Animage issues continues but trying to figure out how to post the same things between many websites is weird.
Currently scanning December 1984 and these huge dorks just arrived.
Nausicaa chapters had to go on break since movie production was spinning up so in the place of chapters is put concept art, production details, interviews and fan work here is the opening of the first of these Nausicaa Notes
Akio Sugino 10 Points on Animation from Animage for September 1979


Poster for Animage July 1979 by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
1979 begins, we did one issue (May) last time we took a journey to the past but there is a lot more of this year this time around.
Animage for January 1979 cover to cover (156 images)